Notables Rally to Zionist Roll Call

The National Zionist Roll Call, whose aim is to enroll 500,000 American Jews as a demonstration of faith in the rebuilding of Palestine as the Jewish National Homeland, has evoked interest in every section of American Jewry, according to a report issued this week by Meyer W. Weisgal, Director of the Roll Call campaign. Men and women who had not hitherto been known to take an interest in Palestinian affairs have responded to the Roll Call to give expression to the unity that exists in American Jewry with regard to the Jewish Homeland.

The Mizrachi, the orthodox wing of the Zionist Organization, has joined forces with the Zionist Organization of America and Hadassah in sponsoring the Roll Call. A public appeal was issued last week by Gedaliah Bublick, President of the American Mizrachi, urging all orthodox institutions to support the Roll Call campaign to the fullest extent. Young Judaea, national Jewish youth organization, is another of the Jewish bodies which has endorsed the aims of the Roll Call and which is calling upon all its members to secure enrollments.

A list of notable Jews in all walks of life who have answered the National Zionist Roll Call was made public this week, and includes a number of prominent names in the arts, the law, education, the stage and screen, and public life. Mrs. Florence P. Kahn, member of the United States Congress from San Francisco, was one of the first to sign an enrollment blank. Others include Louis K. Anspacher, noted dramatist; Prof. Benjamin Harrow of Columbia University; George Sidney Hellman, one of America’s foremost art critics; Eddie Cantor, famous musical comedy star; Prof. Isaac Husik, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania; S. Jay Kaufman, prominent New York columnist; Prof. Nathan Isaacs, Professor of Business Law at Harvard University and Henry Hurwitz, Chancellor of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association.